(loud applause and cheering) - [Joel] Hey everybody,
come on let's welcome Mr Kanye West today. (loud
applause and cheering) awesome to have you, all right
guys y'all can be seated. So awesome to have you at
Lakewood and just feel blessed. (loud applause and cheering) All right guys y'all can be seated. Kanye was so kind to come for tonight's Sunday service and when I
heard he was coming I said, man you gotta come on Sunday
morning, at least say hello to the people so. Here we feel blessed to
have you Kanye and Kanye just some thoughts maybe. We've all seen, you know,
something happen in the last year or so, you're not where
you were back then. Maybe you can just speak a
little bit to the transition and you know, how are you
here today at Lakewood? (loud applause and cheering) (audience member cheers) (loud applause and cheering) - Well I know that God's been
calling me for a long time and the devil's been
distracting me for a long time. (loud applause and cheering) And when I was you know, at my lowest point you know God was there with
me and sending me visions and inspiring me. And I remember sitting
in the hospital at UCLA after having a mental breakdown and there's documentations
of me drawing a church and saying, writing, start
a church in the middle of Calabasas and even after
that I went and made the The Life of Pablo album. I said this is a gospel album
and I didn't know how to totally make a gospel album
and the Christians that were around where too, I would say beaten into
submission by society and not speak up and profess
the gospel to, you know. To me because I was a superstar, but the only superstar is Jesus. (loud applause and cheering) So as I sat there saying,
you know I'm gonna make a gospel album, there where
Christians that were there that were not. Excuse me brother, I go into these strings of
consciousness when I'm talking and when you're speaking
in the middle of it, it distracts me. I really appreciate support
but I would like for everybody to be completely silent so I
can let God flow through me as I speak to you guys today. (loud applause and cheering) So in the studio, and this studio, it's
good to compare to places that you're in in life,
where people tell you to quiet your voice and not talk about Jesus, you know, so loud. But everything else is so loud around us. When I'm in California, when
I'm in Vegas they got posters up advertising, you know,
sex trafficking because if there's a advertisement for a strip club that is advertising sex
trafficking because at the end of the night when they
close up, the manager says how much traffic do we have? So, if it's a man that's going
through things with his family or going through things
at work and he feels he has to go there. We all end up participating,
whether it's the spirits that get advertised to us all the time. Alcohol is, they call it a spirit. So we get constant
advertisement for spirits. We get constant advertisement
for strip clubs and other things like that but then we
bring up the name of Jesus we're told to be quiet. Quiet that down. So, even for someone who's
professing God and saying, this going to be a gospel
album, the devil's gonna come and do everything he
can to distract people from knowing how to fully
be in service to the Lord. And, all of that arrogance and
confidence and cockiness that y'all seen me use, before God, it's now using for him. (loud applause and cheering) Because every time I stand up, I feel, that I'm standing up and
drawing a line in the sand. And saying, I'm here in service to God and no weapon formed against me (loud applause and cheering) shall prosper. - [Joel] That's so good Kanye. You know Kanye maybe one of
the most powerful, I've heard a lot of your interviews but maybe, can you speak any to, you said
you use to worship the god of fame and the god of some
of things and that didn't fulfill you, can you talk
a little bit about that? - Yes because it's presented to us on TV. There's a rumor I heard where someone had sat down with Sammy
Davis Junior and this is no, you know, knock to his family
but I wanna use a specific name that we know of because
it's a celebrity name, we have these icons, we use it. And he leaned in and he said, you know, Satan is as powerful as God. And that is the mentality that people have a lot of
times when they're in service to fame, money, manpower. You start to feel like
Satan is the most powerful and you start to feel like
if you're in service to God that in life it means
you will not prosper. And the only way to prosper
is in service to fame and it, you know. It's like devil stole
all the good producers. The devil stole all the good musicians. All the good artists,
all the good designers. All the good business people. And said you gotta come
over and work for me and now the trend the shift is going to change,
Jesus has won the victory. (loud applause and cheering) Because now, and I told you about my arrogance and cockiness already. Now, the greatest artist that
god has ever created is now working for him. (loud applause and cheering) - I thought Kanye, you know, I grew up, I'm a preacher's kid. You didn't grow up like me, how, you know, maybe speak to, a little
bit, to your upbringing and you know, how that all,
how all the effected you? - Well my dad had me in church three times a week. For me as a kid, you know going to church on
Wednesday instead of going to basketball practice or
getting to play video games got to be, you know, a little bit boring. And my mom had me in church twice a week, or definitely on Sundays. We actually grew with the
church, it was a pastor named Johnny Coleman and we grew
from a small church to a mega-church, a Chicago version. I think it grew to like five, 6 000. And my mom always had the
records in the house and we would be playing a lot of R&B records
but then we'd go and hear the gospel and hear worship. So you know, as I now have
a family, I'm 42 years old and married for five years. (loud applause and cheering) There's a blatant responsibility
for me to become more like my mother who's gone to
heaven and more like my father who has a, who's working on
building a water purification center in the DR. (loud applause and cheering) You know with rappers there's
so many things that we've done where, to maintain the idea of coolness. You know we have our own
daughters and we still be rapping about trying to hook
up with somebody daughter. Like not taking the
responsibility as a man, that's why I say the song
Closed On Sunday, is the hardest record ever made. It's hard as a NWA record
because it's talking about protecting your kids from the
indoctrination of the media. The thousands and thousands of images that are fed to children
by the age of six or seven. And within those images, there are images mixed in
that we don't know about as parents, that are
purposely mixed in to lower the kids' superpower and
esteem so that they can be more susceptible to consumption
and feel that they need to consume and became a part of the robotic, numeric system that controls so much of the media. Did I? You know I just had to say
it like it is, you can rewind it and then do research
what I'm talking about but. (chuckles) - Kanye one my favorite
songs on your new album is that song God is. In that middle you've got that part where I mean, you're preaching in the middle. It's very very powerful and
you know, maybe not everybody's heard it but I just ask
if I could play maybe this 30, 40, 60 second clip and listen to this, I'll get him to comment on this but guys roll that if you would please. ♪ Revelation, this aint
about a dead religion ♪ ♪ Jesus brought a revolution ♪ ♪ All the captives are forgiven ♪ ♪ Time to break down all the prisons ♪ ♪ Every man, every woman ♪ ♪ There is freedom from addiction ♪ ♪ Jesus you have my soul ♪ ♪ Sunday service on a roll ♪ ♪ All my idols, let 'em go ♪ ♪ All the demons, let 'em know ♪ ♪ This a mission, not a show ♪ ♪ This is my eternal soul ♪ ♪ this my kids, this the crib
(loud applause and cheering) ♪ ♪ This my wife, this my life ♪ ♪ This my God-given right ♪ ♪ Thank you, Jesus won the fight ♪ - How about that, wow. (loud applause and cheering) You said more in 60
seconds than I say in my 30 minute message right there. You know what, that's really powerful man. The addictions have to
go, the demons have to go. You wanna speak to it
all, speak to it at all? - Yeah those addictions are are on us, even when you are
saved and fully delivered. You know when I started Sunday
Service I started my church which people told me I could
call a church because you aint got no pastor, so it aint really a church. But it was church fOR us, it's all we had. And you know, (loud applause and cheering) we didn't really have a
place to consistently go, you know, every week and bring
the family and we started off by just, you know, having
records that were good and I'm gonna get to the addiction part. (laughter) you know nice, easy to listen to records
and good feelings. I had a friend that came by and said, but you have to say the
name Jesus, you can have you know, all of this good
sounding stuff but eventually people are gonna need solid food. So we, we started to (loud
applause and cheering) then incorporate that. And those addictions,
these different addictions that all of us have are things that can bring,
I like to say bring our Christian score-card down. And they'll hit you sometimes,
you'll just go ahead and just pour that drink and then repent for it. So we're all human, we
all gonna fall short of the glory. I aint seen nobody with a 23
play as good as Michael Jordan. So, Christians are not going to be Christ. We are going to follow
Christ and be Christ-like and repent for our sins. But there's a lot of times
when people don't wanna come to Christ, they try to point out the worst Christian they ever met. But when you play basketball
you don't point to the worst basketball player, you point
to the best basketball player. So with these addictions that hit us, it's that constant you know, being in constant repentance. A lot of people who don't wanna
accept what the Bible says is because they don't wanna accept that they are in the wrong or that
they are basking and living and capitalizing off of sin. We all have sin, it's another thing to
just be selling drugs in the children's parking-lot. (loud applause and cheering) (laughter) - Finally, couple of things I
was thinking there, let's see (laughter) - You know one of it is
this, we got two more things I wanna get to. I heard, well let me go
to the second one first. What would you say to the younger Kanye? You know there's some young
people listening, maybe they're where you were 10 years ago or something. You know, any advice for them? - You know. It's not that that the younger Kanye. There's nothing I could
say to the younger Kanye through words, I could
speak to the younger Kanye through music. (loud
applause and cheering) So we on they neck! This music gonna come every month. We dropping that heat, we in the studio. God is strengthening our
hands, we have writers, we have producers, we taking
all the most fire producers and bringing them back to God. (loud applause and cheering) All the best voices, all the best dancers. All the worship, for us to see that it's through Christ. I mean following the Bible
can free us all and it was, you know, interesting you'd think. You know when we were at
the prisons to you know, professing how Jesus can set you free. And it's a. It's true, the more and
more this entire country follows Christ and sets
the example that we are a Christian country. (loud applause and cheering) They're attempting to take
prayer out of schools. When you remove the fear and
love of God, you create the fear and love of everything else. (loud applause and cheering) so let me word that not in a negative way, but in a positive way. Reinstate the fear and love
of God and eliminate the fear and love of everything else. (loud applause and cheering) What I got that from, that
slight difference of wording, I got that from Joel. (loud applause and cheering) Because, there's a lot of people
in the Christian community that try to give Joel a hard
time because when you turn on the radio, he keeps on
showing you good God is. (loud applause and cheering) God is not the enemy, God
is not the negative part. God is not just a perception
of fire and brimstone, God is love, is the
greatest, is the glory. God is family. God is friendship, God is prosperity. Keep our eye on the
sparrow, keep your eye on the beauty and the love
and the grace of God. The grace that allows us to be here today with all of our sins. That, we know that when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior, we
will be granted eternal life. (loud applause and cheering) - That's so good, I love that. When you got Kanye defending
you, you made it man, all right, okay. (loud applause and cheering) a couple more, because I
wanna stay on that Kanye because it's not just about
turning over a new leaf. It's not just about, you know,
being good or being positive it's about a personal
relationship with Jesus. Knowing that he died for our
sins, we repent of those sins and we say, God I'm gonna walk with you. You know Kanye, you can
speak to that, I don't know if you wanna pray for the
people or I'll pray for them or however you wanna do that. But let's just make sure,
you know the main point is, what you stand for is, not
just you've turned over a new leaf. You told James Corden and I
don't wanna steal your words but James Corden said, well how
do we know Kanye is just not you know, it's just not for a
minute or something like that? You said, you know, when you're
asleep, that's one state. When you wake up that's
another state and Kanye said, I woke up to God, so I'm
awake now so I love that. That's powerful (loud
applause and cheering) you wanna say anything,
you wanna pray over them, anything you wanna do? - Oh absolutely, Lord, Christ, Father God. Thank you for this moment, thank you for the anointed words and the
mission that Joel has been set on the amazing, the thousands and thousands. Hundreds and thousands of
people that Joel has brought to Christ and being that often times, that first step that invites
us to let us know how good Jesus is and how good your love is. Thank you for bringing me up
in the church, thank you for the opportunity to have given
me a platform that is so vast that no one can take it
away once I've turned over everything to you. Thank you for the opportunity
to stand on this stage without judgment. Next to (loud applause and cheering) one of the strongest voices in the Christian community. Thank you for having my family here today, the West side of the family,
Jaden it's his brithday. We're gonna go ice-skating, thank you for. But then he said he aint
wanna go ice-skating so now we gonna go go-karting (laughter) and also my prayers do sound
like this, they are somewhere in the Ricky Bobby territory. (laughter) Thank you so much God
for this opportunity, in Jesus name we pray, Amen. - Come on Lakewood (loud
applause and cheering) love you man, I love
you so much, thank you. Thank you for being here. (loud applause and cheering) - [Joel] Hey guys can we
make Kim Kardashian and North feel welcome right here in the front row. (loud applause and cheering) So awesome to have you,
Kim Kardashian West, sorry. And North. Thank you so much, thanks for
being here guys, we love you. It's gonna be an awesome night tonight. You may be seated if you would
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What reality did I shift into that Kanye West is in a church speaking next to Joel Osteen??
I’m not religious, and I’m not trying to be offensive, but knowing Kanye’s history and how he acts I 100% believe that this is a total act on his part. Of course, I really believe that about Osteen too...
This gave me serious Michael Scott vibes